Fedora Linux 35 lands from The Fedora Project
Tuesday, November 2, 2021 by Russ Scritchfield
The Fedora Project, a community-driven open source collaboration sponsored by Red Hat, Inc., has announced the general availability of Fedora Linux 35, the latest version of the fully open source Fedora operating system. The new features and enhancements in Fedora 35 are aimed at improving the overall experience for all levels of users, from beginner to advanced.
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Java vs. Kotlin: The raging debate
Thursday, December 13, 2018 by Ashish Parmar
Java and has been around for 22 years and was the go-to language for Android developers until recently. Experts state that it could become obsolete even with the latest Java 8, mostly because of its endless try-catch blocks, verbose syntax, lack of support for functional programming features, null-unsafety and the notorious NullPointerException. Also, Java was created t...
Why Kotlin language use is skyrocketing
Tuesday, July 10, 2018 by Richard Harris
Kotlin, the Java based language that titles itself as "The Statically typed programming language for modern multiplatform applications" is alive and kicking as revealed in a new report from Pusher who says there is "exponential growth in Kotlin adoption."
Kotlin originated at JetBrains, the company behind IntelliJ IDEA, in 2010, and has been ...
What is New in the Recent Release of Visual Studio 2015
Friday, July 24, 2015 by Richard Harris
Microsoft just released the highly anticipated Visual Studio 2015 just in advance of the impending Microsoft 10 release. Here is a rundown on what’s new for VS 2015:Cross-platform mobile device support - Android, iOS, and WindowsOut of the box, Visual Studio allows developers to use web technologies to build production quality mobile apps for iOS, Android and Windows us...
Swift One Year Later Is Apple's New Mobile Language Ready for the Enterprise
Wednesday, July 8, 2015 by Brian Westendorf
One year ago at the Apple Worldwide Developer’s Conference, Apple launched the beta of a new language for its Swift iOS platform.Objective-C has been the basis for all of Apple’s applications since 1996, so the arrival of a new language is an exciting shakeup. Swift was created to encourage more developers, especially new and young developers, to get into mobile by lowe...
YAWMOO Offers C and C++ Interpreted Developer Environment for OS X
Monday, June 15, 2015 by Richard Harris
YAWMOO has released a new update to CPPlay, its C and C++ interpreted environment for OS X Yosemite. CPPlay allows developers to enter code and immediately see the results, much like Apple's Swift Playground feature in Xcode. CPPlay was designed with learning and creative coding in mind as the platform allows developers to eliminate edit/compile/link/run cycles. De...
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware Access
Thursday, April 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
RoboVM Lets Developers Use Java to Build iOS Apps Using native UI’s With Full Hardware AccessRoboVM has released the first stable version of its coding platform which lets developers reuse Java language and tools skills to build iOS Apps using native UI’s and with full hardware access.RoboVM is setup as a platform with multiple components:- The ahead-of-time (AOT) compi...
Get Your Reading Glasses: Apple Publishes 500 Page Behemoth of a Guide for New Swift Programming Language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
From a developer standpoint, one of the top news out of Apple’s WWDC is the new Swift programming language for Cocoa and Cocoa Touch, which works side-by-side with Objective-C.Apple is touting the platform as a fast, high-performance LLVM compiler, where Swift code is transformed into optimized native code, tuned to get the most out of modern Mac, iPhone, and iPad hardw...
Intel Open Sources OpenMP Runtime as an LLVM Project
Tuesday, October 8, 2013 by Richard Harris
Intel has decided to provide a
copy of Intel® open-source OpenMP* runtime as an LLVM sub-project
(and the LLVM project has been kind enough to accept the contribution!).
This gives the community a fully LLVM license compatible version of the
OpenMP runtime
for use in OpenMP development projects. The complete source code is now available at openmp.llvm.org...
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